Royalty Free Music: Family-Friendly Folk
Folk music plays a major role in film trailers. There’s a reason you hear it from major family-friendly motion pictures to small independent comedies.
Folk music is frequently used in trailers for good reason. The music is simple, has wide appeal, and it puts people in a good mood. For filmmakers, folk music is perfect for editing. It mixes really will with just about every other genre. You can easily cut a trailer with a folk song and jump into a rock song.
Take the trailer from the latest Pixar film, Inside Out. The trailer opens with a happy folk song before jumping to the classic rock track “More Than A Feeling” by Boston.
The ability to easily blend other music genres with folk is so valuable to editors. That’s why you will always hear it in movies and trailers aimed at reaching the widest audience possible. If you need royalty free music for you own projects, look no further than the PremiumBeat catalog.
Here are a few folk songs to start you off.
- Soaring
- Bright and rhythmic, featuring pulsing acoustic guitar, energetic hand claps, percussion and electric guitar that create a magical and proud mood.
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- Front Porch
- Bright and flowing, featuring warm acoustic guitar that builds with a Pop Rock feel and creates a proud and heartfelt mood.
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Walking on Rainbows
By Gyom
- Bright with a pounding beat, featuring pulsing acoustic guitar, cheerful vocal oohs and earthy textures that create a cheerful and celebratory mood.
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- Spread Your Wings
- Upbeat and bright, featuring anthemic hand claps, breezy acoustic guitar and a carefree piano melody that creates a feel-good mood.
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Out in the Open (Vocal Version)
By Max Brodie
- Bright and warm, featuring gentle acoustic guitar, a building Folk Pop groove, vocal oohs and light piano that create a peaceful and satisfied mood.
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- Rise N' Shine
- Upbeat and driving, featuring bright mandolin, vocal oohs and a bouncy Pop groove that creates a carefree mood.
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Rolling Tides
By Gyom
- Bright and bouncy, featuring ukulele, cheerful male vocal oohs, hand claps and an energetic Pop groove that creates a happy and carefree mood.
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So Happy Together
By Julian Bell
- Bright and earthy, featuring breezy ukulele, hand claps, vocal oohs and light drums that create a carefree mood.
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Breathe In
By Seth Imming
- Gentle and driving, featuring soft acoustic guitar and sweet electric guitar lines over tasteful rock drums that create a mild inspirational mood.
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- No More Rainy Days
- Light and warm, featuring pulsing marimba, smooth synth textures, mandolin and acoustic guitar that creates a dreamy and cheerful mood.
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- It Matters
- A light electric guitar and mandolin introduction leads to soothing synth textures, and hand claps that create a happy and optimistic mood.
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- Fireflies and Dusty Trails
- Bright and earthy, featuring a carefree whistling melody, vocal oohs, hand claps, foot stomps and mandolin that create a mood of celebration.
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